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Facebook has been cooperating with law-enforcement officials for some time when it comes to handing over user data as evidence in court cases. But the situation is less clear when those legal requests are made by others — a predicament being highlighted right now in a murder case in Oregon, where the social network has (so far) refused to comply with requests from the defense team of a murder suspect to provide data that could prove beneficial to the defendant’s case.
The case has some potentially big consequences. If Facebook gets held in contempt of the court for not handing over
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The latest Facebook data breach – which exposed personal contact information Facebook had harvested on six million of its users – is a reminder that even if you’re not handing over all your contact data to Facebook, Facebook is obtaining and triangulating that data anyway.

Facebook continues to fight dragnets for private data by governments, but the combined number of requests from local law enforcement and federal spy agencies like the NSA went up 24% from the last half of 2013 to the first half of 2014, according to Facebook’s new government requests report.